Population Reference Bureau

Contraception is a "best buy" for development. By helping individuals to choose when to have children, family planning saves lives; it prevents unintended pregnancies, averts maternal and child deaths, and prevents abortions...

Men and women face distinct challenges in late life. Paradoxically, men tend to have shorter lives but women have more health problems at any given age. In other words, women have lower mortality but higher morbidity than men...

by Mark Mather and Kelvin Pollard

(May 2009) U.S. Asian and Hispanic/Latino population growth rates have started to slow, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau...